Jul 22, 2009 9:10am
Prime Time Presser for POTUS
EmailPresident Obama will continue to make the case for health care reform, even as efforts suffer setbacks. Our GMA report:
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President Obama will continue to make the case for health care reform, even as efforts suffer setbacks. Our GMA report:
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Sen. DeMint: GOP Race Could Go Until Convention 
Obama Avoids Questions on Contraception Rule
Seriously, would it kill him to know what is in the bill? Sure, there is a lot, but if he’s going to push it, he should know EVERY detail. Otherwise, how can he promote it with a straight face?
Posted by: Obama, the Second Coming | July 22, 2009, 9:31 am 9:31 am
Will the press be allowed to ask questions? If so, have the questions been “delivered” yet?
Posted by: tjp612 | July 22, 2009, 9:51 am 9:51 am
Yawn … another NETFLIX night…
Posted by: Terry | July 22, 2009, 9:55 am 9:55 am
Obama: hey guys i need some time to lie to the American people again…
ABC,NBC,CBS: sure Comrade, we will provide cover for you.. Wanna know the questions we are going to ask?
Posted by: Obamas brownnosing media network | July 22, 2009, 9:55 am 9:55 am
Tonight is important for the press, but most ordinary Americans wont pay too much attention.
What has a greater impact is the overall public push from Obama that has lasted a week now. The only way that health care gets a jolt of public support is if Obama’s personal popularity is able to convince Americans to support him.
Posted by: matt | July 22, 2009, 10:00 am 10:00 am
Canned laughter
Canned Heat
Canned Ham
Canned Spam
Canned Soup
……………………………………
***************CANNED PRESS CONFERENCE***************
Posted by: American Infidel | July 22, 2009, 10:25 am 10:25 am
How long before Obama commandeers an hour every single night so that he can continue the never ending campaign?
Maybe he can simply take over the networks.
Ooops.
Posted by: drjohn | July 22, 2009, 10:27 am 10:27 am
“The only way that health care gets a jolt of public support is if Obama’s personal popularity is able to convince Americans to support him.”
Why on Earth would they want to? Under Obamacare you’ll get much less at a far greater cost and your parents will be forced to die when Barney Frank decides it’s time.
Good God, man.
Posted by: drjohn | July 22, 2009, 10:29 am 10:29 am
Obama was overheard telling the BlueDog Dems.” you are going to destroy my presidency”……..Thanks bluedogs for watching out for the people
WhiteHouse mum on this comment
Posted by: The tax man cometh | July 22, 2009, 11:08 am 11:08 am
RE: Jim DeMint’s Waterloo comments, did he mean it would “break” Obama or “brake” Obama?
Posted by: tsc | July 22, 2009, 11:25 am 11:25 am
Keep the pressure up on your Senators and Congressmen/women. Let them know that you will vote them out of office in 2010 if they pass this bill.
This is just the beginning. They will never stop pushing for this.
Note to GOP: You say you want to reform health care? Get back in power in 2010/2012 and then fix the problem! Quit procrastinating. Stop listening to the lobbyists and listen to the people!
Posted by: Traffic Cop Timmy | July 22, 2009, 11:42 am 11:42 am
The event planned…questions submitted, responses placed in the teleprompter, teleprompter anchored in concrete…..
Jake Tapper: mr. President..concerning HR3200 section 102
OBAMA: ARGHHHHHHHHH, I haven’t read that yet..Its not in the teleprompter
Posted by: The tax man cometh | July 22, 2009, 11:42 am 11:42 am
“Obama was overheard telling the BlueDog Dems.” you are going to destroy my presidency”……..”
He’s destroyed HimSELF by stonewalling on the budget deadline, then turning around and saying “If you don’t set a deadline, nothing gets done in this town”.
Posted by: Bet N | July 22, 2009, 12:16 pm 12:16 pm
“‘Why does the Fed deserve more authority’ when it failed to spot the current financial crisis before it struck? wondered Sen. Christopher Dodd, a Democrat and chairman of the committee.” [who helped cause the financial crisis and got a sweetheart mortgage deal as an exclusive member of the Friends of Angelo Club - AND IS A DEMOCRAT!]
Posted by: Traffic Cop Timmy | July 22, 2009, 12:17 pm 12:17 pm
Does the President have a TV series now or something, he seems to be on every week now.
Posted by: hkdakota | July 22, 2009, 12:20 pm 12:20 pm
So many questions for the president, so little chance of getting them asked let alone answered. Why is Obama refusing to disclose who he and his administration has met with in the health industry? Hope and change…yeah, not so much.
Posted by: Axey | July 22, 2009, 12:23 pm 12:23 pm
“Does the President have a TV series now or something, he seems to be on every week now.”
But this is the FIRST time a NORAD exercise over DC — and over Chicago last night, where He’s headed next — has been used as an opening act before the Executive Ingenue struts and frets before the cameras.
It’s quite 9-11ish, in a sulky passive-aggressive way :^)
(The NORAD stuff is almost NOT in the news, but it was on the CNN crawler on Tuesday night.)
Posted by: Bet N | July 22, 2009, 12:39 pm 12:39 pm
Does the President have a TV series now or something, he seems to be on every week now.
Dallas – The Bobby Ewing Dream season where we wake up and it was all a bad dream.
Posted by: Traffic Cop Timmy | July 22, 2009, 12:46 pm 12:46 pm
I have a question you could ask, Jake:
Would singling out older people for end of life counseling be AGE DISCRIMINATION??
What obama said about the older women not receiving treatment but pain killers be considered age discrimination? If she wants care for her ailments, she has the right to care, otherwise it’s discrimination.
In fact, this whole entire bill reeks of discrimination – they are picking and choosing who receives care.
Please bring this up. Thanks.
Posted by: Jenny | July 22, 2009, 1:13 pm 1:13 pm
Maybe I will order the movie 1984 and play it instead. Big Brother on the screen… 24/7… what’s the difference.
Maybe during his press conference Mr. Obama can flash a picture of Sen. Jim DeMint for a quick two-minute hate. Now I’d be happy to watch that…
Posted by: Terry | July 22, 2009, 1:13 pm 1:13 pm
Jake,
If the whitehouse press does not ask him hard hitting REAL questions tonight, they are finished! The people are sick of Obama, and sick of the press. You have constitutional protections for a reason! So you can ask the hard questions. So do your job and stop offering him cover.
It is unconstitutional for congress and the president to try to change our system of government from representative republic, to marxist! You people and the republicans better stop them, or We The People will!
Why government run health care? Why not just a fix to cover people who need it? Why take away the insurance of 83% of Americans who are happy with it?
Why does this bill OUTLAW private coverate, and phase it out?
Why wont congress and pres use the same health care?
There are plenty of REAL QUESTIONS out there and we expect to hear some from all of you tonight!
Posted by: Carmen | July 22, 2009, 1:19 pm 1:19 pm
Jake,
If the whitehouse press does not ask him hard hitting REAL questions tonight, they are finished! The people are sick of Obama, and sick of the press. You have constitutional protections for a reason! So you can ask the hard questions. So do your job and stop offering him cover.
It is unconstitutional for congress and the president to try to change our system of government from representative republic, to marxist! You people and the republicans better stop them, or We The People will!
Why government run health care? Why not just a fix to cover people who need it? Why take away the insurance of 83% of Americans who are happy with it?
Why does this bill OUTLAW private coverate, and phase it out?
Why wont congress and pres use the same health care?
There are plenty of REAL QUESTIONS out there and we expect to hear some from all of you tonight!
Posted by: Carmen | July 22, 2009, 1:20 pm 1:20 pm
Does the President have a TV series now or something, he seems to be on every week now.
“The Man With No Past”
“The Blame Game”
“Logan’s Run: The Obama Years”
“Desperate White House Staffers”
Perhaps “The Manchurian Candidate” could be made into a TV series…
Posted by: tjp612 | July 22, 2009, 1:22 pm 1:22 pm
“In fact, this whole entire bill reeks of discrimination – they are picking and choosing who receives care.”
It’s not only age discrimination, but discrimination in granting favored status for training, grants, and jobs to “minorities” and the “underprivileged”.
Posted by: tjp612 | July 22, 2009, 1:28 pm 1:28 pm
Since the press rolls over to get their bellies scratched, will “The Blogger from Maine” be able to ask another unrehearsed question?
Posted by: WWTP? | July 22, 2009, 1:35 pm 1:35 pm
I am so sick of seeing the president everyday on every channel. All the press needs to do is their job. Prehaps the press could use Obama’s own pamphlets he put out against hillary’s mandate plan during the primary. The man made it a point to attack her on this. Its all over the internet. Check your archives take this man to taks.
Posted by: rachel | July 22, 2009, 1:38 pm 1:38 pm
psst! Obama’s infomercial, with a supporting cast of news persons, is not REALLY intended to be a “press conference”:
“White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel told The New York Times Obama intends to use the news conference as a “six-month report card,” to talk about “how we rescued the economy from the worst recession” and the legislative agenda moving forward, including health care and energy legislation.” — UPI
Posted by: Bet | July 22, 2009, 1:43 pm 1:43 pm
If health care is a right, how can they refuse it to anyone? Yet it seem that Mr. Obama’s whole cost-cutting thing is just a plan to refuse health care to some individuals.
Just hope you will be the one getting the operation instead of “the pain pill”.
Posted by: Terry | July 22, 2009, 1:44 pm 1:44 pm
“White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel told The New York Times Obama intends to use the news conference as a “six-month report card,” to talk about “how we rescued the economy from the worst recession” —
Didn’t just keep implementing the plan put in place by Mr. Bush?
Posted by: Terry | July 22, 2009, 1:46 pm 1:46 pm
“Prehaps the press could use Obama’s own pamphlets he put out against hillary’s mandate plan during the primary.”
–> If the fix is in, again, on which of the formerly-”free” press may press WHAT, maybe the press should walk out — that’d overcome the White House seizure of the airwaves to shore up Obama’s failing personality cult.
Or they could throw shoes.
Either of these push-backs would
1. look GREAT on teevee
2. give heart to the people on whose behalf the press enjoys a special place in the Constitution, and
3. make Walter Cronkite, who wouldn’t have gone along with this crap, smile from Heaven.
Posted by: Bet | July 22, 2009, 1:50 pm 1:50 pm
ROFLMAO!
Look at all the angry right wingers who are so mad that Obama will take questions.
I think with this presser he will have exceeded Bush’s 1st term total in just his first six months.
Posted by: Ryan C | July 22, 2009, 1:58 pm 1:58 pm
“Didn’t just keep implementing the plan put in place by Mr. Bush?”
As many have noted, Obama is Bush in blackface. Obama’s excesses are beginning to make the Bush administration — during which people could hope for a “Democratic” administration to reverse the slide into corporate fascism — look like “Happy Days”.
Foon Rhee, Boston Globe:
“In a letter today to Obama, four senior House Democrats scolded him, saying he is being too much like former President George W. Bush in using the statements to ignore legislation he thinks oversteps the Constitution, the Associated Press reports.
The House members said they were “surprised” and “chagrined” by Obama’s statement in June accompanying a war spending bill that he would ignore restrictions placed on aid provided to the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. The letter was signed by Representatives David Obey of Wisconsin; chairman of the House Appropriations Committee; Barney Frank of Massachusetts, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee; and Nita Lowey and Gregory Meeks of New York, who chair subcommittees on those panels.”
Posted by: Bet | July 22, 2009, 2:09 pm 2:09 pm
Hey Jake:
Will you please ask Mr. Obama this one question on the health care plan: “If the health care reform plan includes a government-sponsored option, would you be willing to forgo your private insurance (and that for your wife and daughters) and place your entire family on the same government-sponsored plan that you are advocating for so many Americans, and if not, why not?”
Posted by: Doodad Pro | July 22, 2009, 3:17 pm 3:17 pm
You gotta wonder whether some member of the press may manage to get a question answered about today’s departure of Senator Hatch from the Senate health-care talks.
Posted by: Bet | July 22, 2009, 3:32 pm 3:32 pm
Goddie-goddie another infomercial.
Posted by: Lizzie | July 22, 2009, 3:34 pm 3:34 pm
Is NBC jumping from the Pres. Obama band-wagon, the are NOT showing the Pres. press conference????????????
Posted by: Lizzie | July 22, 2009, 3:36 pm 3:36 pm
Posted by: Ryan C | Jul 22, 2009 1:58:35 PM
What questions?????? The ones who were written by the White House staff and the Pres. rehearsed????????????
Posted by: Lizzie | July 22, 2009, 3:38 pm 3:38 pm
“Is NBC jumping from the Pres. Obama band-wagon, the are NOT showing the Pres. press conference????????????”
–> Didn’t NBC agree to broadcast it, only AFTER Obama changed HIS schedule so that His “press” performance wouldn’t pre-empt singer Susan Boyle on “America’s Got Talent”.
Posted by: Bet N | July 22, 2009, 3:43 pm 3:43 pm
“What questions?????? The ones who were written by the White House staff and the Pres. rehearsed?????????”
You seem to be mistakenly thinking of Bush and male prostitute Jeff Gannon.
Posted by: Ryan C | July 22, 2009, 3:57 pm 3:57 pm
Now, according to CNN, Pelosi’s said she won’t let the House go on vacation UNTIL they vote on the zillion-page pig-in-a-poke.
THAT’ll be interesting. Washington is sooo delightful in August, and the press can’t leave if Congress can’t. :^)
Posted by: Bet N | July 22, 2009, 3:58 pm 3:58 pm
Axelrod’s about to appear on CNN to flack the Sickulus Show . . .
Posted by: Bet N | July 22, 2009, 4:10 pm 4:10 pm
Ryan Said: “You seem to be mistakenly thinking of Bush and male prostitute Jeff Gannon.”
Ryan, Ryan, Ryan,
1. Mr. Bush has left the building…
2. Your desperation is starting to show, and there is nothing more pathetic than a desperate left-winger.
Posted by: Terry | July 22, 2009, 4:25 pm 4:25 pm
“Good evening. Rather than discuss my failure so far to push through my health care boondoggle, I would like to once again say that everything that has happened so far in my administration is George Bush’s fault. That worked well for me before – so I would like to start using it again. Maybe that will help break up the log jam here in Washington. And have I mentioned lately that I won? That worked quite a few times, too. Anyway – thank you and god bless Iran, er, I mean America.”
Posted by: Traffic Cop Timmy | July 22, 2009, 4:44 pm 4:44 pm
Ew: David Axelrod looked and sounded sick on CNN — said nothing for two minutes, interspersed with the phrase “the American people”. He was particularly disinclined actually to answer a question about abortion.
These guys shouldn’t be allowed to try to run a medium-sized high school, let alone a country.
Maybe if we re-run the primaries, and this time only actual DEMOCRATS, instead of waffling ambition-freaks, run . . .
Posted by: Bet N | July 22, 2009, 4:51 pm 4:51 pm
And from the Presdient who’s not concerned with 24-hour news cycles, he managed to jump on this pretty quick:
“Just the other day,” the president continued, “one Republican senator said — and I’m quoting him now — ‘If we’re able to stop Obama on this, it will be his Waterloo. It will break him.’ Think about that.
Posted by: Traffic Cop Timmy | July 22, 2009, 4:53 pm 4:53 pm
Obama is worried about the blue dog Dems destroying his presidency–even though he said “it’s not about him”.
Figures that he’s worried about himself and not what he is doing to this country.
If I have to choose one to succeed I choose America.
Posted by: bailey | July 22, 2009, 5:05 pm 5:05 pm
So it’s time for another lecture from the boring professor.
The guy that knows what is best for every human being on earth.
Creepy…
Posted by: max | July 22, 2009, 5:11 pm 5:11 pm
The one certainty is that he won’t be truthful about his health care reform. He is incapable of doing so, as people are now realizing. The latest CNN poll shows fewer than half of Americans approve of his plan. They know he’s lying about it.
Posted by: Fructuoso Solano-Revuelta | July 22, 2009, 5:12 pm 5:12 pm
“The guy that knows what is best for every human being on earth.
Creepy…”
–> He IS creepy: the way he spins His fingers, while speaking, to distract attention from His eyes, is PARTICULARLY creepy … and He speaks English as though it’s a language He’s afraid of, one He doesn’t speak at home.
Posted by: Bet Noir | July 22, 2009, 5:15 pm 5:15 pm
“1. Mr. Bush has left the building…”
Yes better not to mention that a male prostitute was given press credentials and called on by the President even though he did not work for any news organization.
Let’s also not mention the partisan softballs attacking Democrats this prostitute asked the President.
Or FoxNews anchors and personalities receiving talking points from the Bush WhiteHouse.
Instead let’s allow the right wing projection stand unchallenged.
Posted by: Ryan C | July 22, 2009, 5:16 pm 5:16 pm
Here’s one to search and read BEFORE enduring tonight’s executive blabla on health care:
“Why Obama’s Public Option Is Defective, and Why We Need Single-Payer”, by Drs. Steffie Woolhandler and David Himmelstein, associate professors at Harvard Medical School.
Posted by: Bet N | July 22, 2009, 5:28 pm 5:28 pm
People are at the breaking point.
If Obama and Pelosi can’t see it then they are deeper in denial than I thought.
Pelosi really acts clueless and Obama is only concerned about his glorious legacy and making America pay for its past.
Posted by: marley | July 22, 2009, 5:31 pm 5:31 pm
Once again our mainstream media steps up to the plate to act as Obama’s multi-faceted public relations team. And, tonight Obama will “speechify” relentlessly about a bill he admits he hasn’t even read, and I would imagine very few in congress have read. Remember the stimulus bill, with all Obama’s promises to post bill’s online for five full days before voting. Another promise broken an he’ll break that promise again in his efforts to jam through this colossal mess deludedly called “reform” and he’ll have full cover in doing so from the mainstream media.
Posted by: Thank God for Karma | July 22, 2009, 7:01 pm 7:01 pm
Wow, Obama really blew it tonight! What a scattered, disjointed, rambling pile of ap-cray he tried to lay on the American people. He seems to be in some kind of denial and kept repeating his stupid mantra about “inheriting” the deficit, etc. Whiner! He looked non-presidential and testy when asked hard questions. I am sooo tired of him already!! Is it 2012 yet…….omg!!
Posted by: Sunnyr | July 22, 2009, 11:55 pm 11:55 pm